Category: Color Photography
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A Glimpse Into: Myanamar
My friend Bill Livingston, a somewhat cantankerous filmmaker, always manages to forward me some of the most beautiful examples of photography and cinematography. We got both in this piece by A Glimpse Into:
Here’s a link if the video isn’t visible above.
A nice addition to this short piece is the use of a time-lapse rail—and they’ve used it really well.
If you want so see some more beautifully executed eye-candy, take a look at A Glimpse Into‘s site here:
Please share!
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Hmong Wedding
Last year I spent twelve weeks working on a photography project with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF—That’s Doctors Without Borders for the Americans) in the Xamti settlement of Houaphanh Province, Laos. During that time, I met a wonderful Hmong/Lao translator named Noy. I was excited to find out that she was going to marry and that I was invited to the wedding. This was an event I wasn’t going to miss…
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No Words, #5
No Words, #5.
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Bangkok Personalities: Bestu Varas
So… technically, my Bangkok Personalities posts are about someone I find interesting and interact with. In this post, however, I found the situation interesting but the only interaction that happened was getting scowled at by an Indian holy man. And no, his name isn’t Bestu Varas…
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Valaikuppa or Poochutal, Your Call
If I understand it correctly, Valaikuppa is the formal name, and Poochutal is the informal name for a ceremony I attended in September. It’s a ceremony to bless a pregnant mother and her child and to ensure a safe birth. That mother would be half of a pair of Indian friends I have that I met in Costa Rica a few years back. Kartik and Rupa had bailed from NYC just about the time I had and are also now living in the Pacific Northwest.
I usually shoot black and white, and have seen some stunning monochrome work done in India by one of my photographic idols, Sebastiao Salgado. But this ceremony was just begging for color. I have to admit that I just love how the Canon 50mm/1.2 renders elements of the scene. It just has a way of making images look lush. The 5D MkII was good also and does a great job with color images, but the focusing system, well, it’s just lacking. But, since rapid shooting typically isn’t what I do with that camera, it hasn’t been much of an issue. I did miss focus on quite a few shots and think the focusing system in the MkIII would really have come in handy.
Back to the event. It involves only women, a black sari to ward off the evil eye, vermillion, rose petals, some oil, and a lot of bangles. Let’s take a look…
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Bangkok Time-Lapse
My first Bangkok time-lapse! Actually, I’ve done a few time-lapse shots before, but this is my first time-lapse on a motion control rig from The Chronos Project. More about that piece of kit in a following post. There wasn’t anything close in the foreground, so you don’t get any parallax effect, but if you watch the sides of the frame, you will see that the camera was indeed moving. I letter boxed the 3:2 image because I liked the way the format looked for this shot. Here it is, but please change the Quality Setting (click on the little gear on the bottom right of the YouTube viewer) to 480P or higher. YouTube’s compression just destroys motion at anything below that.
httpvh://youtu.be/VqKwm2AG0oQ
Read on for the technical details… and maybe a peek at my setup, for the truly geeky:
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No Words, #1 (New Project)
Well, a few words at first. Quite a few years ago, I helped start and participated in a no words forum where a photo would be posted and that image would convey or set a theme. Then others would post their photos interpreting that theme. No description, comments, or text allowed, only images. I really enjoyed the variety—images sometimes only tied to the theme by the most tenuous thread, other times with a resounding thematic link. It was always interesting to see what people considered the ‘theme’ and some of the interpretations would be quite intelligent.
So, I’ve decided to do this as an exercise. I’m doing it mainly as an exercise to shoot more, but also to post images that don’t fit in a gallery or collection. In other words, the random things I find that I like to photograph. Please hit Recommend or Share below if you like the image. Enjoy!
No Words, #1 (New Project).
